Don't know if it helps but :
You can find a pre-compiled binary version (for linux x86) at http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=34373
However this quite old now and I'm not certain whether it's still working with latest releases of Mediawiki (> 1.10)
Steve VanSlyck wrote :
Why don't the publishers of TeX just compile first? Why do *I* always have to do the compiling of these programs?!
Aaron Gray wrote:
TeX is dependant on O'Caml (a programming language) which requires a compiler and make system in order to build and install it.